‘I have confidence’ Kim Jong Un will honor agreement

While Pompeo touted the recent talks as being a positive along with substantive step toward denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry quickly contradicted him, calling the talks “regrettable.”

Pompeo used different language about the North Korean talks in subsequent remarks to reporters during an unannounced visit to Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.

“We still have a long ways to go. yet which commitment which the North Koreans made, frankly which Chairman Kim personally made to President Trump, remains as when reinforced,” he said.

Pompeo also stressed which North Korea’s remarks were “mixed,” along with represented an expression of Kim’s continuing “desire to complete the denuclearization to which he is usually so committed.”

As the Trump administration continues to court North Korea with praise along with diplomacy, simmering trade tensions between the U.S. along with China officially boiled over last week when U.S. tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods kicked in.

China immediately shot back, matching the Trump administration’s punitive taxes with an equivalent tariff package against U.S. imports. China’s Ministry of Commerce has accused the U.S. of having “launched the largest trade war in economic history.”